General articles: Arts and culture

Yaxchilan Lintel 24

Yaxchilan Lintel 24 is a carved Maya limestone relief from 709 CE showing Queen Lady K'ab'al Xook in a bloodletting ritual, now in the British Museum.

Yaxchilan Lintel 25

Yaxchilan Lintel 25 is a carved Maya limestone lintel showing Queen Lady K'ab'al Xook conjuring a Vision Serpent; it is now in the British Museum.

Yaxchilan lintels

The Yaxchilan lintels are carved limestone door beams from the Late Classic Maya city of Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico, among the greatest reliefs of the ancient Americas.

Yaya DaCosta (Camara DaCosta Johnson, born 1982) is an American actress and model, ANTM Cycle 3 runner-up, known for April Sexton on Chicago Med, Whitney Houston in Lifetime's Whitney, Our Kind of People, and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Yayan Ruhian

Yayan Ruhian (born 1968, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia) is a pencak silat master, fight choreographer, and actor famous as Mad Dog in The Raid, later in Star Wars, John Wick 3, and The Furious.

Yayati

Yayati (ययाति, Yayati) is a lunar-dynasty emperor of the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, cursed with old age by Shukra; his son Puru took it in exchange, and Yayati's sons Yadu and Puru founded the Yadava and Kuru lines.

Yayati (ययाति) (novel)

Yayati (ययाति) is V. S. Khandekar's 1959 Marathi mythological novel retelling the Mahabharata's Yayatopakhyan; it won the 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award and the 1974 Jnanpith Award, the first for Marathi, and is distinct from Girish Karnad's 1961 play of the same name.

Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生)

Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生), Japanese avant-garde artist and novelist (1929–2026), known for polka dots, Infinity Net paintings, soft-sculpture Accumulations, mirrored Infinity Mirror Rooms, self-obliteration, and representing Japan at the 1993 Venice Biennale.

Yayoi pottery

Yayoi pottery (弥生土器) is the plain, thin-walled unglazed earthenware of Japan's Yayoi period, roughly 300 B.C. to 300 A.D., when rice farming spread through the islands.

Yazin Nizar

Yazin Nizar, sometimes credited as Yasin, is an Indian playback singer born in Kollam, Kerala in 1990, known for Telugu hits and singing in M. M. Keeravani's music for RRR.

Yazko Edebiyat

Yazko Edebiyat was a Turkish monthly literary magazine published in Istanbul from November 1980 as the organ of YAZKO, the writers' and translators' cooperative founded by Mustafa Kemal Ağaoğlu.

Yazoo (band)

Yazoo, released as Yaz in North America, was an English synth-pop duo formed in 1981 by Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet, known for "Only You" and "Don't Go".

Yazz

Yazz (Yasmin Evans, born 1960, Shepherd's Bush, London) is a British dance-pop singer; her 1988 Coldcut-produced single "The Only Way Is Up" topped the UK chart for five weeks, and her album Wanted reached number 3.

YBN (collective)

YBN (Young Boss Niggas, later Young Bosses Only) was an American hip-hop collective formed in 2014 by YBN Nahmir, YBN Almighty Jay, and YBN Cordae from Xbox Live Grand Theft Auto sessions; its only release, YBN: The Mixtape (2018), went RIAA Gold before the 2020 disbanding.

YBN Nahmir

YBN Nahmir, born Nicholas Alexander Simmons in Birmingham, Alabama, 1999, rapper who founded the YBN gaming-collective and broke out in 2017 with the platinum "Rubbin Off the Paint".

YBNL Nation

YBNL Nation (Yahoo Boy No Laptop Nation) is a Nigerian independent record label founded in 2012 by rapper Olamide. It has developed Afrobeats artists such as Fireboy DML, Asake, and Lil Kesh.

Ycee

Ycee is the stage name of Oludemilade Martin Alejo, a Nigerian rapper and singer born in 1993 who broke out of the Lagos scene in 2015 with "Jagaban" and "Juice".

Ye (album)

ye is Kanye West's eighth solo studio album, released June 1, 2018 via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam; seven songs, 23 minutes, recorded in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; debuted #1 on Billboard 200, his eighth consecutive chart-topper.

Ye Banished Privateers

Ye Banished Privateers is a Swedish pirate-folk band from Umeå, founded in 2008, known for theatrical sea shanty shows by a rotating crew of about a dozen musicians.

Ye Live Concert Tour

The Ye Live Concert Tour (YE LIVE) is a 2026 stadium tour by Ye, formerly Kanye West, supporting Bully, marked by dates blocked in the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere in Europe.

Ye Maaya Chesave (యే మాయ చేసవే)

Ye Maaya Chesave (ఏ మాయ చేసావే) is a 2010 Telugu romantic drama by Gautham Vasudev Menon, starring Naga Chaitanya and debuting Samantha Ruth Prabhu, shot alongside Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa with a happy ending, with A. R. Rahman's score winning Filmfare honors.